Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 233 323
Rank change year-on-year -136 +90 -72
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 481 683 832
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.39% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 248 304 481
10th Percentile £36,750 £48,488 £37,639
25th Percentile £49,844 £59,964 £51,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £80,313 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year - +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -140 441 £63,076 -13.00% 375
London -36 258 £71,074 -11.16% 281
Work from Home +51 248 £63,000 -3.08% 123
UK excluding London -191 179 £62,500 - 131
North of England -27 67 £63,076 -19.90% 29
North West +21 45 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -142 30 £45,000 -28.00% 47
East of England -11 29 £65,000 -9.72% 16
Midlands -44 25 £55,000 -18.52% 21
South West -79 22 £68,528 +14.21% 7
West Midlands -24 21 £57,500 -14.81% 12
Yorkshire -33 19 £60,850 -22.73% 14
Scotland +6 5 £85,000 +4.62% 9
East Midlands -24 4 £38,347 -46.18% 9
North East -51 3 £63,076 -23.54% 1
Wales -53 3 £69,501 +16.11% 3
Northern Ireland -66 1 - - 3

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (2.91%) Confluence
3 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.04%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Moqups
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.11%) Workfront
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.83%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Eikon
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.21%) RMDS
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 73 (15.18%) SaaS
2 72 (14.97%) AWS
3 53 (11.02%) iPaaS
4 52 (10.81%) Azure
5 16 (3.33%) GCP
6 14 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.49%) GitHub
9 10 (2.08%) Figma
10 9 (1.87%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.25%) Asana
13 6 (1.25%) Pulumi
14 5 (1.04%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.04%) Miro
15 4 (0.83%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.83%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.14%) Broadband
2 30 (6.24%) HTTP
3 10 (2.08%) WAN
4 8 (1.66%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.46%) Firewall
6 6 (1.25%) LAN
7 5 (1.04%) Network Security
7 5 (1.04%) NGN
8 4 (0.83%) MPLS
8 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.62%) Intranet
9 3 (0.62%) WLAN
10 2 (0.42%) DNS
10 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.42%) Multicast
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.42%) VoIP
10 2 (0.42%) Wireless
11 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.85%) Metadata
2 13 (2.70%) Power BI
3 7 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.62%) Big Data
6 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.62%) Tableau
7 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.21%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (6.24%) JIRA
2 6 (1.25%) Git
2 6 (1.25%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Postman
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (32.85%) Marketing
2 156 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 140 (29.11%) Finance
4 68 (14.14%) Banking
5 60 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (12.47%) Retail
6 51 (10.60%) Presentation Skills
7 50 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (9.98%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (9.36%) Law
10 32 (6.65%) Public Sector
11 28 (5.82%) Legal
12 21 (4.37%) Back Office
13 16 (3.33%) Manufacturing
13 16 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.91%) Italian Language
14 14 (2.91%) Retail Banking
15 11 (2.29%) German Language
16 10 (2.08%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 152 (31.60%) Product Manager
2 77 (16.01%) Product Owner
3 70 (14.55%) Lead
4 68 (14.14%) Senior
5 41 (8.52%) Senior Manager
6 38 (7.90%) Senior Product Manager
6 38 (7.90%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.44%) Development Engineer
8 30 (6.24%) Software Development Engineer
9 24 (4.99%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.16%) Developer
11 16 (3.33%) Consultant
12 15 (3.12%) Platform Manager
12 15 (3.12%) Product Lead
13 14 (2.91%) Business Consultant
13 14 (2.91%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (2.91%) Development Consultant
14 12 (2.49%) AWS Developer
14 12 (2.49%) Cloud Developer
14 12 (2.49%) Lead Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.86%) REST
2 8 (1.66%) PyTorch
2 8 (1.66%) TensorFlow
3 6 (1.25%) CSS
3 6 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.25%) HTML
3 6 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (1.04%) LangChain
5 4 (0.83%) Keras
5 4 (0.83%) LangGraph
5 4 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.83%) Spring
5 4 (0.83%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.62%) .NET
6 3 (0.62%) React
7 2 (0.42%) FHIR
7 2 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.42%) Pandas
7 2 (0.42%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (35.55%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.31%) Social Media
3 54 (11.23%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.23%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.48%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.44%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.74%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.49%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (2.08%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.87%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.66%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.66%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.12%) Linux
2 8 (1.66%) Windows
3 7 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) CentOS
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (63.41%) Roadmaps
2 222 (46.15%) Agile
3 142 (29.52%) Product Roadmap
4 127 (26.40%) Product Vision
5 109 (22.66%) Decision-Making
6 102 (21.21%) AI
7 101 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (19.75%) User Stories
9 93 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 87 (18.09%) Customer Experience
11 86 (17.88%) Product Backlog
12 78 (16.22%) Product Requirements
13 76 (15.80%) Sprint Planning
14 73 (15.18%) Mentoring
15 72 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (14.76%) Software Engineering
17 68 (14.14%) User Experience
17 68 (14.14%) Workflow
18 65 (13.51%) Analytics
19 63 (13.10%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.36%) Java
2 26 (5.41%) Python
3 17 (3.53%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.49%) SQL
5 9 (1.87%) Bash
6 6 (1.25%) Bicep
6 6 (1.25%) Go
7 3 (0.62%) C#
7 3 (0.62%) C++
7 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.62%) PHP
7 3 (0.62%) R
7 3 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) C
8 1 (0.21%) Perl
8 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (15.80%) Degree
2 12 (2.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.87%) HND
5 8 (1.66%) HNC
6 6 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.83%) CCNA
7 4 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.83%) CSPO
7 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.62%) CISSP
8 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) CBAP
9 2 (0.42%) CIMA
9 2 (0.42%) IIBA
9 2 (0.42%) MBA
9 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.61%) QA
2 19 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.29%) GDPR
4 10 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.83%) PERC
5 4 (0.83%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) DICOM
6 2 (0.42%) HL7
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.83%) Firmware
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (4.16%) Terraform
2 11 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.25%) Ansible
3 6 (1.25%) Argo
3 6 (1.25%) Kustomize
3 6 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.42%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (12.47%) Adobe
2 47 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.33%) Google
4 12 (2.49%) Oracle
5 10 (2.08%) Cisco
6 8 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.25%) Dell
8 5 (1.04%) Databricks
8 5 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.04%) Juniper
8 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.83%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.83%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.62%) Aderant
10 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.62%) Facebook
10 3 (0.62%) iManage
10 3 (0.62%) Reuters
10 3 (0.62%) VMware